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Six photo slices of minerals arranged into a rainbow collage and below that, the six photos of the mineral specimens used for the collage. The crocoite consists of red, elongate crystals, from Tasmania, Australia. The wulfenite is tabular, interlocking orange crystals, from Arizona, USA. The sulphur is a mass of yellow crystals, from Sicily, Italy. The malachite contains curved banding in varying shades of green, from Russia. The azurite is a dark metallic blue resting on top of green malachite, from Arizona, USA. The amethyst consists of a mass of purple, translucent crystals, from Lake Superior, Canada. All specimens are on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

Happy pride month! #CrystalQueer #minerals 🌈💎

Climate and weather scientists are joining the anti-Trump resistance in the most ‘scientist-iest’ way | CNN In the face of steep funding cuts for climate and weather research and forecasting, scientists have found a new way of engaging the public.

Weather and climate scientists determined to resist funding and program cuts in the geekiest way possible - with a 100-hour livestream of science presentations www.cnn.com/scientists-r...

It's so exciting.

And slightly overwhelming at the success.

But mostly exciting.

The law’s the law… 😄

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Have you ever returned to a job role after leaving for further education? I have an opportunity to apply for a short contract in the same team I left (at a higher pay point). It makes financial sense, but it feels a little strange to do.

We need new barometers for academic success beyond number of publications.

Peter Dutton, aligning with billionaires over his own electorate? Stuffing cash into bags instead of sand? Astonishing. Truly.

There was a publication a year or so ago that looked at the impact the starlink and other box satellites would have on the ozone layer. It's alarming if it plays out that way.

“Peter Dutton vows to cut 'wasteful' government spending, says details to come after election”

Oh I hope this bites him back.

The universe speaks in mysterious ways.

When you're making commentary around the use of AI, you might as well use the tools you're preaching.

*you're

None of those normal arm positions when indicating or pointing to something included hitting their chest beforehand. Musk went all in on the salute.

Clive Palmer emulates Musk to get Dutton elected Nutjob candidates, cooker alliances and crocodile tears notwithstanding, Palmer's endgame isn’t winning seats, it's ensuring the party with the

Clive Palmer emulates Musk to get Dutton elected
Nutjob candidates, cooker alliances & crocodile tears notwithstanding, Palmer's endgame isn’t winning seats, it's ensuring the party with "drill, baby, drill" mentality is in power, writes managing editor @michellepini.bsky.social

This is so sad

I'm running on stress and adrenaline to get a full draft of my PhD thesis out to my prof before Christmas?

It's so close, but irritatingly taking longer than I would like due to stress...

Vague post is intriguing

THIS! There is *nothing* cheaper or easier than an idea. Any morning—and I’m not *that* wildly creative—I get half a dozen ideas for novels before I’ve even had my tea. But the novel comes of the work of distilling an idea up through your brain, in *your unique voice.* Not some answering machine’s.

Don't work full-time.

I am learning that I enjoy figure development in Illustrator - until I have to make fine-detail adjustments over four+ similar figures.

Also, excel graphs have too many extra bits when they are copied in.

My PhD has my crying more than the Wicked cast

Seismologists xkcd.com/3021

It's a fascinating dataset, but the volume of data does my head in sometimes.

Today's achievement is almost 80 tiny histograms of logging data from my samples. These are from sub-samples of coal seams that includes at 20m+ seam. It's a really fascinating sequence forming just before a major marine transgression - that 20m+ seam is >200,000 years worth of peat mire formation.

Productivity doesn't mean constant work. Take breaks, find balance, and allow yourself time to rejuvenate.

See the video, repost the video.

It's not entitled. It's an important skill to know when a job isn't working out for you, what you can do about it and when to move on. For many people who move straight from undergraduate studies into higher research, asking for advice on this kind of thing is showing responsibility.

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I've been here before on other projects - I'm mature age with signifant applied research experience behind me. It's just dragging and I needed a vent 😅